The dramatic testimony of Noemi Grifo and Ilario Pepe, the two boys who hosted the laborer who died after being abandoned with his amputated arm in a farmhouse behind their home and who, first, called for help. “We could hear the screams of his wife who kept asking for help, then we saw a boy holding him in his arms and taking him behind the house. We thought he was helping him, but then he ran away. They told us he wasn’t in order ” they reported
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New details have emerged on the tragic death of Satnam Singh, the 31-year-old laborer who died after being abandoned with an amputated arm due to an accident at work. Noemi Grifo and Ilario Pepe, the two boys who hosted him together with his wife in a cottage behind their home and who were the first to call for help. “We could hear the screams of his wife who continued to ask for help, then we saw a boy holding him in his arms and taking him behind the house. We thought he was helping him, but then he ran away”, they reported. “I immediately ran after him – continued Ilario -. I saw him getting into the van and I asked him what had happened and why he hadn’t taken him to hospital. He replied ‘he’s not in order with me’. He could have be helped.”
“The remains of the arm left near the bins”
“Satnam’s wife told us that they were loaded into the van and their phones were also taken away. She saw everything and is devastated”, added Noemi Grifo and Ilario Pepe to journalists. The boys specified: “As soon as we saw him his whole arm was missing, some remains had been left near some bins”. The Libera association also commented on the tragedy, announcing its intention to become a civil party in the future trial against those responsible. In a note he denounced that “in his death a chain of horrors that annihilates and envelops everyone in a disconcerting spiral of evil”. The statement further states that the death of the young Indian “testifies to a system of illegality and widespread crime which in the countryside of the province of Latina reaches heights of barbarism that are no longer bearable. Starvation wages, inhuman working rhythms and conditions accompanied by doping practices to support the effort, indecorous accommodation, imposition of hidden tariffs for transport, harassment of various kinds which often culminate in psychological and physical violence, as well as in real acts of segregation of the victims of these abuses”.
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The province of Latina, the note continues, “is also a place of excellence and innovation animated by agricultural entrepreneurs who themselves become victims of unfair competition from companies that undermine rights. In the Pontine area, out of over 7 thousand agricultural companies, only 173 have signed up to the quality agricultural work network which was created with the aim of stemming the phenomenon of gangmastering in the agricultural sector, creating a sort of white list”. The association concludes the statement with a proposal: that public financial aid and support “be reserved only for these companies that generate good economics and respect for the dignity of work. Words of condolence are no longer enough, indignation at the death of Satnan which crosses the country must be transformed into a concrete commitment on the part of the institutions in the fight against gangmastering and exploitation in the agri-food chain towards the valorisation of healthy companies and the affirmation of the rights of workers”.
